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abandoned

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of abandoned

1 left unoccupied or unused

  • she consciously avoided walking past the abandoned house, with its broken windows and sagging porch
Synonyms of abandoned

derelict, deserted, desolate, disused, forgotten, forsaken, rejected, vacant, vacated, void
Words Related to abandoned

ignored, neglected, unattended, untended

castaway, cast-off, discarded, jettisoned, junked, refuse, waste

godforsaken, miserable, shabby, wretched

empty, idle
Near Antonyms of abandoned

reclaimed, recovered, redeemed, rescued, retrieved, salvaged, saved

reconditioned, rehabbed, rehabilitated, restored

repeopled

2 showing no signs of being under control

  • wild, abandoned dancing that shocked the staid chaperones at the debutante ball
Synonyms of abandoned

intemperate, rampant, raw, runaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrolled, unhampered, unhindered, unrestrained
Words Related to abandoned

uncontrollable, ungovernable

barbaric, hog wild, riotous, uninhibited, wild
Near Antonyms of abandoned

moderate, tempered
Antonyms of abandoned

bridled, checked, constrained, controlled, curbed, governed, hampered, hindered, restrained, temperate

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